Went to Nashville (and Memphis) last weekend and as well as a celebratory 27th annivesary meal at Merchants we stopped in at 12th & Porter to see The Daisycutters headlining again. Great energetic set by them again, though again a bigger crowd would have helped – so many seemed to have come just to see [...]
Entries from July 2008
Did I Say Full Circle ?
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July 30, 2008 at 9:15pm
by Psybertron
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There’s Still Time
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July 19, 2008 at 1:37pm
by Psybertron
At 52, there is still hope for me then ? Sponsorship or wait until retirement, that is the question.
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Fishy Week
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July 19, 2008 at 12:57pm
by Psybertron
The subject of fish has come up several times recently – Tigris Carp & Salmon of (Doubt) Wisdom as wise advisors, BabelFish as a metaphor for language independent interoperability interface, and I had become convinced I’d heard of “talking catfish” somewhere before. I say heard of, because I was also recently thinking I was maybe [...]
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Proud to be an Aero Engineer
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July 17, 2008 at 9:51am
by Psybertron
It’s a long time since I qualified as an Aeronautical Engineer and worked on Tornadoes, Hawks and Harriers, and I’m still a sucker for plane-spotting – civil or military. At a time when civil aircraft are all increasingly scale-efficient clones of each other, and air-travel a politically-incorrect chore, driven by ecolo-econo-geo-political considerations, it’s a wow to [...]
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Nashville Skyline Full Circle
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July 12, 2008 at 4:52pm
by Psybertron
A week late blogging this but some things are worth capturing even if late. Sylvia and I went to Nasville last weekend – 4th July, Independence day on the Friday. We booked into a cheap motel 8 miles, a cab ride, out of town off I40, so as not to have to worry about drinkand/or driving [...]
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Whatever Next ?
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July 12, 2008 at 12:50pm
by Psybertron
[Caveat - this review may not do the subject justice, but I didn't really notice how good a read it was until I was well into it, by which point not only did I not have any notes, but I was committed to read on to a conclusion. So from memory ... is the summary [...]
Freedom Cancelled
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July 12, 2008 at 11:07am
by Psybertron
Just read Saul Bellow’s “Dangling Man” his first book, written in 1944 – he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976. Picked-up on Bellow for the Chicago Uni connections, but otherwise no strong connection to my agenda in Dangling Man – references and allusions to Goethe and Dostoevsky abound. Joeseph, is the man dangling [...]
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Shuttle’s End
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July 8, 2008 at 3:11pm
by Psybertron
Interested in this news story from our position here in Huntsville, AL. The NASA Space Shuttle timetable formally announced now up to the final mission on 31st May 2010. Follow the links to the NASA Constellation / Ares / Orion project which will provide subsequent manned NASA missions. The Huntsville connection ? Wernher-vonBraun / Operation-Paperclip [...]
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Godfather III
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July 8, 2008 at 2:03pm
by Psybertron
We were discussing at an extended family meal week before last how the Godfather trilogy was quality drama – perhaps Godfather III being the weakest. Sylvia and I recalled and discussed it further for some reason over the weekend and noticed we had only a VHS recording of the trilogy, and no longer any video [...]
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It was 40 years ago today.
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July 8, 2008 at 10:59am
by Psybertron
It was 40 years ago today … Cap’n Bob rode his bike away … So let me introduce to you … The one and only ZMM … On the 8th July 1968 Robert Pirsig set out on the road-trip that became Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The rest as they say, is history.
